Connected Water in Semi Arid Environments

水无疑是我们最宝贵的资源，经济和社会的持续发展严重依赖于水资源。位于地下水位以上的半干旱地区的短暂河流通常会补充地下含水层。在澳大利亚东南部的默里盆地的大部分地区，河流补给提供了罕见的淡水，既是灌溉和家庭供水的潜在水源，也是以基流形式进入河流的咸化地区地下水的缓冲。该项目将使土地利用变化和河流治理对这些地下水透镜体的风险得以量化，并限制水资源是否可以可持续利用。

Water is undoubtedly our most valuable resource, and continued economic and social development is critically dependant on water resources. Ephemeral rivers in semi-arid areas that lie above the water table commonly recharge the underlying aquifers. In much of the Murray Basin of southeast Australia, river recharge has provided rare fresh groundwater that is both a potential source of water for irrigation and domestic supply and a buffer to saline regional groundwater entering the rivers as baseflow. This project will allow the risk to these groundwater lenses from landuse changes and river regulation to be quantified as well as constraining whether the water resources may be used sustainably.